Chapter 245: Return to Senzhou

her wander the streets alone""If I wasn't filming outside, would I even bother asking you""I don't care, I'll send you her flight information. You go pick her up and bring her to my house. After that...Xiaoxin really always brings up the wrong thing at the wrong time. 。Shutinglan gave her a cold look and sarcastically said, “Do you want me to introduce lawyer Zhang to hire you Or should I buy you a ticket back home now” Xiaoxin immediately fawned, “No, I want to stay with Lawyer Shuting forever>>>" 。"Just shut up, you're so annoying." 。Shutinglan really regrets bringing her out. 。Because the guardhouse where Wu Dezhong was held was near their hotel, which was also conveniently located near her home. 。If one were unfamiliar with any other part of Senzhou, then this area she knew better than anywhere else. 。She checked into the hotel. Since she couldn't meet Wu Dezhong until the next day, she spent the afternoon with Xiao Xin researching the case, rereading the original verdict several times. 。Wu Dezhong is the design director of Hongfeng Decoration and Design Co., Ltd. In January, he took over the office decoration project of a game company through a friend's introduction. 。They signed two separate contracts, one for the design of the game company's office and the other for construction. 。The design fee for the contract design is 300,000 yuan, paid in one lump sum. 。

The total contract price for the construction is 3 million yuan, paid in three installments. 900,000 yuan is paid when construction begins, 1.6 million yuan is paid when the project progress reaches 60%, and the remaining balance is paid after the completion acceptance of the project. The total construction period is three months. 。When the renovation reached two months, the game company paid 300,000 yuan for design fees and another 900,000 yuan and 1,600,000 yuan according to the construction progress. 。But at this time, the game company discovered that the actual engineering progress was far from 60%, at most only 20%. Due to communication with Wu Dezhong about the renovation progress and the need to modify and improve the plan, Wu Dezhong refused both. A dispute arose between the two sides, and Wu Dezhong unilaterally stopped the renovation and withdrew all workers. 。So the game company sued Wu Dezhong in court with a lawsuit, accusing him of contract fraud. 。The case indicated that Wu Dezhong not only concealed the construction period to defraud 2.5 million yuan in decoration fees, but also subcontracted the construction company from Hongfeng Decoration, which signed the contract, to a construction team with no qualifications at all, seriously damaging the interests of the game company. 。

This is all Shu Tinglan currently knows. As for the details, she needs to talk to Wu Dezhong himself before she can confirm anything. 。Lawyer Sun entrusted her with the case, setting a clear objective: to defend Wu Dezhong's innocence. 。After researching the case at the hotel, it was already evening. 。Xiao Xin was famished. “Lawyer Shu, what are some delicious foods in Senzhou” she asked. She planned to check them out during her free time. 。Have takeout delivered, and get up early tomorrow to meet Wu Dezhong. 。As soon as she got to work, she was serious and focused. 。She hardly ever looked at review websites; her mind automatically filtered out the signature dishes of the two restaurants nearby. She searched online, and to her surprise, both restaurants were still open—they were places she used to order takeout from frequently. 。Xiao Xin is not picky about food, she eats happily whatever Shu Tinglan orders. 。After dinner, she lay happily in bed and started watching dramas. 。Instead, he felt a sense of ease listening to the sound. In this familiar city, his heart was empty and listless, so he simply opened the door and went for a walk. 。Without realizing it, I ended up at my own neighborhood. 。This house, she has kept it vacant all this time. On one hand, she hasn't come back in years, and on the other, she can't bear to part with it. This was what her mother poured her heart and soul into buying for her, and it also holds the last memories of their time together. 。Thinking this way, he went upstairs. 。He carefully entered the password on the lock, a mix of nervousness and apprehensive timidity gripping him. 。The door lock clicked open, and the motion sensor light flickered to life instantly. 。。Back then, when she took her mother on a road trip, she thought they would be back soon, so she only brought some luggage and left. There were many things in the house that hadn't been packed up. 。Everything was still the same. She had a moment of daze, a feeling that it was all as it used to be, nothing had changed. 。Until she saw in her mother's closet in the small bedroom two sweaters she had knitted herself, one pink and one blue. 。She remembered that in the psychiatric hospital, these two pieces of clothing had been torn by Cheng Zhimin. It turned out that her mother had knitted two new ones. 。Everything seems to have been predetermined. 。She folded the two pieces of clothing carefully and brought them back to the hotel. All the way, she held them tightly in her arms, just like hugging her mother, or like hugging two little children, which made her feel very secure. 。When I got back to the room, Xiaoxin was already asleep. 。She quickly washed up and lay down on the bed, but she still held two pieces of clothing tightly in her arms. 。Xiaoxin woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. She vaguely felt a low, suppressed cry coming from the next bed. She was startled and broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that there was something unclean in the hotel. So she instantly turned on the bedside lamp and called out:

"Lawyer Shu, wake up" 。“

He called out to her while also looking at Lawyer Shu in the next bed.” 。Caught off guard, Xiao Xin saw Lawyer Shu with tears in her eyes that she hadn't had time to hide. Lawyer Shu was wearing pajamas and clutching a ball of yarn for knitting. Under the bedside lamp, she just glanced at Xiao Xin and said:

"Sorry, I woke you up!" Her eyes were still red, and her voice was hoarse. Was Lawyer Shu crying just now

In Xiao Xin's mind, Lawyer Shu was invincible, a symbol of strength. Even when a child was hospitalized, she could handle it calmly. How could she cry

"Lawyer Shu, are you okay" Xiao Xin vaguely felt that Lawyer Shu missed home. 。"It's okay, go to sleep." 。Shù tīng lán didn't explain anything. 。Actually, she had almost fallen asleep just now. In a half-asleep state, she dreamed of her mother. 。Mom was very happy and asked her, "Lanlan, are these two sweaters nice The kids will definitely like them, right" Mom gestured with the sweaters and said a little sadly, "I don't know how old the kids are, whether the sweaters are too big or too small..." 。"Right on time, these two sweaters fit perfectly." 。That's good, that's good 。Mother's shadow became increasingly blurry until it disappeared. 。She woke up suddenly, still clutching the two sweaters in her hand. A nameless pain surged through her heart. No matter how adorable the children were, she wouldn't have a chance to see them grow up. 。In the dead of night, tears streamed down uncontrollably, but I didn't want to wake Xiao Xin. 。

“Ms. Shu, if you have anything upsetting, please feel free to tell me, and I'll keep it confidential.” 。"Xiao Xin said very sincerely before going to sleep " 。Shù Tīnglan didn't answer again. She had too many sad things, but none she could share with others. 。It was like returning to a familiar neighborhood as dusk settled, returning to a familiar home. In that instant, she felt a wave of disorientation, a feeling that Zhuo Yu'an would suddenly appear from the kitchen or bedroom and ask her, Tinglan, what do you want for dinner

She couldn't bear to stay in that house any longer. Clutching the knitted sweater her mother had made, she fled almost in panic. 。Fortunately, she left quickly enough because as soon as she left the apartment complex, Zhuo Yu'an from the other direction was slowly driving into the complex and heading up to her apartment. 。d to keep her at home for a few months before she left, but she was sad and heartbroken while also resolute in her decision.“The air in Beijing is too dry for skin treatments, I'm going back to Senzho...